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How to Take good photos of your Artwork

7/14/2020

 

Don't throw shade on your artwork with sub-par pictures.​

To display and sell artwork online, clear and accurate photography is crucial. Collectors aren't able to see the art in real life, so they depend on the images they see online. Please take the time to make sure your photos accurately represent your work. Even if you don't have a fancy camera, the phone on your camera can take good pictures. Most phone cameras these days are pretty amazing. 

Here are a few tips for taking your own images.
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  • Give your art a fighting chance with accurate lighting and color, and razor sharp focus. 
  • Photograph your artwork BEFORE you frame it, especially if it is going to be framed under glass; glare on glass will detract or obscure your artwork.
  • Only your artwork should be in the photo.  No people. No furniture. No MacDonalds hamburger wrappers. Just the artwork.
  • If you have an iPhone, experiment with the hdr setting. It can help achieve a balanced exposure of your artwork.  
  • ****IMPORTANT**** If you're using a phone, don't use the zoom! Camera zooms are digital, and degrade the image. 
  • Minimize distortion. Keep the camera square to the image (see below). ​
  • Always label your image files. Give the file name your last name, first name, and then the name of your image.​​ ​

PHOTOGRAPHY CHECKLIST 
  • Are all photos are at least 1000 pixels wide and 150 dpi?
  • Is the artwork in sharp focus?
  • Is the artwork the only thing in picture?
  • If artwork is a rectangle, is the picture square (see below for how to minimize distortion)? 
  • Is light even across the picture?
  • Are the colors accurate?

HOW TO MINIMIZE DISTORTION IN ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPHY
Graphic: How to avoid camera Distortion
Your camera (or phone camera) should be on the same plane as the picture to avoid distortion, as close to parallel to the artwork as possible. If the bottom or the top of your artwork appears distorted, try moving your camera up or down until you reduce as much of the distortion as possible. 

make sure everything is in focus

Photos of your artwork must be crisp and clear. When online, collectors can zoom in to see every nuance of a brushstroke or a sculpted line. Whether using a fancy camera or a phone camera, you can make sure your photos are in focus by following these suggestions: 
  • Take the picture using the camera's timer. That way you're not fussing with the shutter while you're trying to hold the camera steady.
  • Put the camera on something so it's steady. I've used ladders, chairs, books, to create an impromptu tripod. But I love my trusty Slik tripod. 
  • Turn on image stabilization if your camera or phone has it. 
  • Get more light on the subject. Cameras need light for best focus. You don’t have to have expensive equipment. It’s nice, but I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of two bell-shaped clamp shop lights with the brightest LED lights I can safely use in them. I use daylight colored lights on the cool side (I adjust the color in photoshop or with  my phone's editing program). I put the light on either side of the painting.  I move the lights around until I've got an even amount of light on the image, being careful to avoid glare. I keep the lights in front of the camera to avoid shadows. I've also taken photos of artwork outside in bright shade or on bright cloudy days. 
    And whatever you do, don’t use a flash, or take your photo in direct sunlight as it will cause an unflattering glare on your artwork.​
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    Here’s an easy homemade diffuser to decrease glare from your lights.
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  • Play with the focus. That's the way you will learn to get the best focus. 
  • As you're taking pictures, check every shot to see how sharp the focus is, so you know where you need to make adjustments. 
  • Don't get discouraged!! Sometime it takes many many shots to get the perfect picture. You will get the hang of it. And your artwork is definitely worth the effort to show it off.
To learn more about photographing your artwork, visit these website:
Photograph your artwork while on a budget
​How to photograph your artwork 
How to photograph your 2D art the right way
How to photograph your 2D art with an iPhone

The artful Volunteers

5/19/2020

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Anne Cook and Will Mosgrove Give back to Moke Hill

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​When Anne Cook and husband Will Mosgrove retired from illustration (Anne) and teaching photography (Will) and moved to Mokelumne Hill five years ago, they fulfilled a vision. “Our dream had been to move a place where we could bring our art background and make difference,” Anne said.
 
They started out by purchasing the H.M. Sturges building at the end Main Street in Moke Hill and turning it into an arts playground, which was another dream they’d had, to have an storefront that was open on a whim, and offered classes and space to make projects. “We had it for 3 years,” Anne said, before they sold it last year. “It wasn’t working out,” she said, admitting that when they made the choice to sell it, they felt as if a weight had lifted from their shoulders.
 
Even though the storefront is closed, Anne said, “We're still operating Acme Art Moke Hill. We're working out of our home. Most of what we do except my mosaics class is taught off premises. It's a lot simpler.”
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The littles (ages 4-7) had fun at Summer Art Camp making monsters based on Where the Wild Things Are,

Oodles of Doodles

Anne and Will are still making a difference. Most of what they do is volunteer. If they are paid, for example by the Calaveras Arts Council, to teach at a local school, “it goes right back in to art supplies that we give out to the community,” she said.
 
These supplies help them offer a free art class at the Moke Hill Library once a month that they call Oodles of Doodles. “Oodles of Doodles has been going about a year now,” Anne said. “It happens the third Friday of every month at our library here in Moke Hill. It goes for two hours and you can drop in for however long, or stay for the whole two hours.” She offers guidance if people want it, but she said that usually people know what to do. It’s open to all ages, and it’s free. Anne and Will offer a different project every month, ranging from painting rocks, to drawing, to making aluminum Christmas ornaments inspired by their trip to Mexico City. But you don’t have to do the project if you don’t want. “We have stations where people just sit and color,” she said.
 
Since the Covid-19 shut down, Oodles of Doodles hasn’t been able to meet in person, so Anne has been trying to figure out how the community can still enjoy art together. She  created a froggy coloring sheet that’s available to download on their Facebook page; printed copies were available to pick up outside at the library.
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Anne fancified frogs for Oodles of Doodles.

Summer Art Camp

The complications of Covid have impacted another long term commitment that Anne and Will oversee: Summer Art Camp.
 
Five ears ago Anne and Will took over Summer Art Camp, a low-cost way for local kids ages 4 to 16 to learn about the arts. Sponsored by the Mokelumne Hill Community Historical Trust, Summer Art Camp had been nurtured by Ed Cline, and Anne and Will were receptive to his vision of the future.
 
Ed’s dream had been to make it a fine art camp with music, dance, theater, and art, so Anne and Will set out to expand. “A couple years ago we were able to find a drama teacher and a music teacher,” she said. The core of what Anne teaches at the camp is visual arts. “I concentrate mostly on modern art,” she said, “although we have done things like portraits made by painting with vegetables ala Archimboldo, a Renaissance artist.. I’ve taught about Renaissance art. I teach everything from drawing to painting to collage.”
 
This summer—Covid Summer—presents a challenge. Traditionally Summer Art Camp meets in the Moke Hill Town Hall, where they have room for around 70 kids. “But this year because of this new normal, we can’t meet in the town hall,” Anne said. She’s working on art kits made up of inventory they’ve been amassing over the years from donations and careful purchases. “If anyone wants an art kit this year, there will be no charge,” she said. “I'm putting together kits for 30 kids. Each kit will have watercolors, some drawing, and we like to focus our lessons on particular artists.” The kits will be distributed through Mokelumne Hill Elementary and Toyon Middle School.  
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Working at home

For her own private art practice, Anne has been enjoying staying at home time very much, and has been productive, working on mosaics, jewelry, Oodles of Doodles projects, resin, drawing, and coloring. “I painted over 150 rocks for the Kindness Rocks Project,” she said, referencing the popular internet rock painting phenomenon. “I’ve been shipping boxes of rocks all over the country to friends and family. I shared 50 rocks in town over Easter.”
 
“The last couple of months I got to do whatever I wanted.”
 
Anne admitted that when she deactivated her social media accounts (Will runs their Facebook page), it helped to free her creative spirit. But she’s also just loving retirement. “I’ve have been so liberated by no longer making art for commerce. If I have pieces for sale, it usually goes to charity. I’m not a commercial artist anymore!”
 
 “I’ve also been a little aimless,” she admitted. “It has been nice to do what ever I want to do.”
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"A project the kids age 8-16 did in art camp. They created two part collage full body portraits. The idea was to get them to think and work BIG! We also taught a bit about the history of collage and modern portraiture." —Anne
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Marlene Bradford creates ideas in clay

5/4/2020

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Isolation has given this ceramic artist time to think

Ceramic figure of girl with birds
For ceramic sculptor Marlene Bradford, the nation’s isolation order during the time of Covid-19 has been a time of introspection about her art. “It’s been great having the time,” she said. “I enjoy working by myself. Although I also enjoy having company.”
 
This enforced time-out came just as Marlene started to pull back from perpetual activity. For the last seven years, she’s been a popular teacher of clay sculpture at Quyle Kilns, where she has instructed many in the skill of how to roll, knead, bend and convince clay to take animal and human form. But recently she gave up teaching regular classes, preferring to teach small groups or individuals on request. “I’ll be 87 in June,” she said. “I don’t have the energy I had before, or the patience.” 
Artist Marlene Bradford
When you take a class from Marlene, you tap into a life dedicated to art. She has always been an artist, and she returned to college in her 40s to complete a major in art. Clay is her first love.  “I like the way it feels. I like being able to move it around and change it back and forth and create my ideas using the clay.”
 
Her ideas, brought to life in clay, bring smiles to viewers. She still has a big presence at Quyle Kilns, where ceramic faces and animals peer from the walls, smile mysteriously, and catch your gaze and make you smile. Making the viewer happy is what Marlene intends.
 
She doesn’t strive for strict accuracy in her animal sculptures.  Instead, she tries to express her feelings about them. “I really want to bring joy through it, and have people enjoy looking at my pieces.”
Ceramic Big Mouth Bass
Ceramic Totem
“The reason I say that is because there are many pieces of art that are not about joy. They are expressions of sadness and illness. That isn’t what I want to think about and express. I enjoy trying to reproduce the shape and idea of different animals. And again, I want them to look peaceful. With them I want to express some kind of good thoughts.”
 
Her portraits of people reflect not just a physical likeness but also the emotional personality of the subject. She honed her accuracy with acts of generosity. “I started having people I know pose for me so I could practice. I said if you like it I’ll give it to you. That’s how I got my technique worked out.” Her commissioned portraits of two doctors—Dr. Milton Ben Smith and Dr. Dante Albasio—greet people at Mark Twain Medical Center.
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Ceramic Bust
​Now sheltering at home, she spends time in her studio in Murphys working on a series of pieces intended for totems, large pieces of art that comprise animals, figures, and objects.
 
Isolation has given her a chance to delve more deeply into her work. “It’s a chance to concentrate on your own ideas and think about what you’re doing. Often we want to discuss things with other artists or teachers. This is a good time to really look inside of ourselves and try things and see if they’re going to work. And figure out how to do something, or what we want to do. What you want people to think about it.”
Keep working during this time. “If you start something, it will be on your mind. You’ll be thinking about it and then you’ll want to get back to it.”
She welcomes the chance to pull out her own ideas and not be influenced by another person. Isolation has made her more thoughtful, sometimes changing her creative plans overnight as she’s slept on an idea. Isolation has made her work more deeply personal.
 
And so the work goes on, although she admits that she hasn’t been working everyday. “There are other things to think about. The garden. Friends to talk to.” But she encourages others to work creatively during this time. “If you start something, it will be on your mind. You’ll be thinking about it and then you’ll want to get back to it.”
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Creativity carries the day at Arsty-Parts in arnold

4/27/2020

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How an artist found elastic and love
​during the Covid-19 shutdown.

Mona Baroody at Artsy-Parts
Mona Baroody solves problems with creativity and business skills
Like most of us, Mona Baroody, owner of Artsy-Parts in Arnold, didn’t expect a mysterious and lethal virus to upend the world so completely. But she is navigating our new reality with the blunt force of her creativity.
 
Mona opened Artsy-Parts in Cameo Plaza almost exactly a year ago as a creative community center. After dedicating four years of her life to the Butte Fire recovery, she said “I wanted to do something for myself.” Someone asked her, what would you do if you could do anything? “My answer was easy. I want to create all day and get paid to do it. I’ve always been creative and happiest when I was doing it. I also wanted to help other people feel the same peacefulness.” In the time before Covid, the cozy warren of rooms provided space for the community to drop in and spread out art projects, take art and craft classes, buy hard to find art supplies and exhibit their art work. The virus changed all that.
 
If an art store seems an unlikely business to survive the shut-down orders, you’d be surprised. Not only do times of uncertainty call for creative outlet to relieve stress, precarious times require an artistic temperament. Mona believes that all the traits and skills of an artist—creativity, inventiveness, thoughtfulness, flexibility—coupled with a positive outlook and hard work will help her weather this storm. At the same time, she can help her community too.
 
“I thought, how can I make this work for all of us?” 
Mosaic class at Artsy Parts
Mosaic making class at Artsy-Parts
She started by supplying crafting kits for families sheltering at home, giving bored kids and stressed parents the chance to craft items ranging from simple foam chickens and bunnies to complicated quilled paper pictures. But other needs surfaced. On Facebook, she posted “hey, spend your money locally. Then somebody said, ‘I need elastic. [for making virus masks]. Can you get elastic?’ And I had no idea what was going on in the world regarding elastic.”
 
In the two days it took Mona to put together an order for a group of local mask makers, all the elastic supply was suddenly gone. “The shipment was being held by the government at the dock as supplies necessary for essential workers only,” she said. Eventually, the wholesale company she ordered from was able to take possession and distribute the elastic. But because the manufacturer couldn’t keep up with the orders, they released only 2 rolls of elastic per day. Not enough for the sudden crushing need for homemade masks.
 
You can’t stop an artist. Mona, a jewelry maker, remembered a kind of silicon rubber cord that is used for stringing beads, and will be able to buy a supply of this for mask makers, as well as pipe cleaners to make the masks form fit to the face. “If the elastic crisis continues,” she said, “I have other ideas.”
Selection of Covid masks
Artsy-Parts carries locally crafted masks
Then people asked if she had material for making masks. “The most effective mask material is debated,” she said, “but the general consensus is that you want 100% cotton quilting blocks. That happens to be what one of my wholesalers carries.” She bought enough for the group and enough to have in stock at her store.
 
All of this has kept Mona quite busy. Time flies as she finagles orders for craft kits, origami paper, calligraphy pens, art supplies, and mask making materials. Customers pick up their orders outside the store, which Mona sanitizes religiously. At the end of her days, often after midnight, she said “I’m so busy I haven’t had time to figure out how I’m doing.” ​
This has made me very aware of how much I love people...It's a basic human need. Love is part of our DNA
One thing Mona has figured out is how hard it is to be isolated. “This has made me very aware of how much I love people. How much we all love people. It’s a basic human need. It’s part of our DNA, a deep need that’s part our survival. Love is a part of our DNA.”

“If it wasn’t for the virus,” Mona said, “I wouldn’t have realized this so deeply.”
 
Mona encourages people to call her for creative needs. She said she can meet or beat Amazon pricing and delivery time. Order supplies from Mona’s online store at artsyparts.com, or her Facebook page, or give her a call at 209/736-7336.
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April 10th, 2020

4/10/2020

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From quilts to Medical mask Maker

4/10/2020

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This is the first in a series of stories about Calaveras County artists and how they are responding to the pandemic emergency. 

Nora Carracedo Keeps busy making masks & tells us how to manage isolation

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​When her doctor could not get cloth masks to protect staff and patients, quilter Nora Carracedo of Valley Springs came to the rescue. After watching several mask making YouTube videos, she sat down at one of her many sewing machines and started thinking.
 
She designed her own version of washable masks made of all cotton material, with a pocket in the middle for a piece of material that’s breathable but still acts as a filter.
 
“I use my own pattern,” she said. “I made one for Sue (her daughter) and me and they worked great. Then I made some for the doctor, and they love them.” Her masks add a bit of brightness to a stressful time. “Some of them have flowers, some of them have polka dots. They’re not plain. They’re pretty,” she said.
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​She’s perfectly suited to this need. Nora’s been sewing and quilting for most of her life. When she was young and living in Argentina, she started sewing for a local store to make extra money. “I made pants, underwear, and shirts for men,” she said. “I had to learn to make patterns because there were not many patterns at that time.” She sewed on a pedal machine and finished the clothing by hand.
 
After coming to the states, she sewed clothing for her children and herself. When the grandbabies started coming, she began making quilts. Sue recollects, “I remember my mother making a little bear quilt for the first grandchild.”
 
Nora is still making quilts for the grandchildren, as well as quilts for community members in need. Nora and her sister lead a team of quilters at the San Andreas Senior Center to make quilts for foster children, children with cancer, and comfort care for hospice. “We also donate money for the senior center, and low cost lunches for kids.” It’s a tight knit group, but they welcome others. “We have fun and we enjoy being together,” she said.
I’m a very positive person. When something happens, I always say ‘I’m going to go up, I’m not going to go down.
While she misses the group since the stay-at-home orders made gathering impossible, Nora doesn’t let it get her down. I asked her for advice on how to manage isolation and the stress of this situation.
 
“I’m a very positive person,” she said. “When something happens, I always say ‘I’m going to go up, I’m not going to go down. I’m going to do everything I can for me, for my family and to keep myself busy. And I get my mind on something I like to do. Even if I don’t like it, I make myself like it. I push myself.”
 
Nora is not an idle person. Besides sewing masks, she makes gifts for the family, cooks, cleans, works in her garden, knits, and generally keeps busy, even while watching television.
 
“I never lay down on the couch,” she laughed. “I don’t even know how to do it.” 
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Message from the Executive Director

3/16/2020

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Calaveras County Arts Council Cancels March and April Events

Dear community members,

The Calaveras Arts Council Gallery, in keeping with government health recommendations, will be closed to the public for the time being. We will be continuing with administrative work via phone, email and Facebook.
 
In addition, we regret that we have to cancel the 2020 Ride & Walk 4 Art event scheduled for March 22 and sadly anticipate that our last Ovations concert with Driftwood Consort on April 5 will be cancelled as well. We will be contacting ticket holders via email, phone or post. Please check our website and/or follow us on Facebook for updates.
 
If you have questions or need more information about refunds, please contact Kathy Mazzaferro at goldrusharts18@gmail.com or write to us at PO Box 250, San Andreas, CA  95249.

Thank you all for your understanding and support.
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Kathy Mazzaferro, Executive Director
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March 15 Ovations Concert Cancelled

3/12/2020

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The Diamonds Concert cancelled due to Corona virus 

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Dear Ovations patron
 
We sad to announce that we have to cancel the March 15 concert The Diamonds at the Bret Harte Performing Arts Center in Angels Camp. The State of California Department of Health recommends cancelling public events to prevent the spread of the Corona (Covid-19) virus, and the Bret Harte School District has closed the theater until April.
 
The response for our upcoming concert featuring The Diamonds has been so wonderful that it breaks our hearts to cancel the concert. We hope you will consider donating a portion or all of you tickets to Ovations to help us cover already incurred expenses. But we understand if you can’t. To request a full or partial refund on your tickets to The Diamonds concert, please contact us by email or USPS post stating your name, address, phone number, how many tickets you purchased, and how many you would like refunded. The deadline to do this is April 6, 2020.
 
Email: goldrusharts18@gmail.com
Post address: PO Box 250, San Andreas, CA 95249
 
As a nonprofit that brings music and the arts to the Calaveras County community, the Arts Council needs your support. Make a gift today to ensure we can continue to keep the arts alive in Calaveras County at our website, calaverasarts.org, or contact us directly at 209/754-1774.
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POETRY OUT LOUD IN CALAVERAS COUNTY

2/5/2020

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VERSE AND RHYME ON THE STAGE AT CALAVERAS HIGH SCHOOL

Calaveras Poetry Out Loud Winners
​From Left: POL Coordinator Ingrid Hjelmervik, 2nd place winner Grace Daniel, 3rd place winner Sydney Button, 1st place winner Sage Miller, Kathy Mazzaferro, executive director CCAC
​On the evening of February 4, Calaveras and Bret Harte High School students gathered for Poetry Out Loud to recite poems like Diameter by Michelle Y. Burke, and The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe. Congratulations to Junior Sydney Button (CHHS), who took third place, Junior Grace Daniels, for her second place win, and first place winner sophomore Sage Miller (BHHS). On March 15, Sage will head to Sacramento to compete against students from around the state.
 
Poetry Out Loud, presented by the Calaveras County Arts Council in partnership with the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. Students first compete at a classroom level, then in front of five judges at each school; the top scorers advance to a county wide level. The winner at the county competition advances to a state competition in March, where they compete to go to the national finals in Washington, D.C. Prizes at that level are substantial; the  national champion wins $20,000 and the runner-up wins $10,000.
 
Poetry Out Loud Coordinator Ingrid Hjelmervik congratulated the contestants from CHS and BHHS for their participation, as well as the teachers who supported the program. “Many thanks for our English teachers Ms. Behle, Bohler, Floyd, Hampton, and Van Buren for supporting this program,” she said, “and to Ms. Ann Mazzaferro for providing the CPAC for the competition.”
 
Kathy Mazzaferro, executive director of the Arts Council, said, “We congratulate all the participants on a job well done. We look forward to supporting our Calaveras champion, Sage, at the state competition in March.”

The Calaveras County Arts Council is committed to presenting Poetry Out Loud. Students interested in competing next year should contact their English teachers and start learning their poems now!
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​Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands bring the high lonesome to Angels Camp

1/29/2020

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Bluegrass and folk music in Calaveras County

Bluegrass musician Laurie Lewis
The Calaveras County Arts Council presents Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands 
Sunday, February 9

3 to 5 p.m.
Tickets: $25 adults/$10 under 18.
Or call 209/754-1774 Monday through Thursday. 
Buy tickets online (no extra fees!)
Or call 209/754-1774 Monday through Thursday.
Last year attendees at the Calaveras County Arts Council’s performing-arts series Ovations had a chance to weigh in on the kinds of music they would like to hear at 2020’s winter concerts. According to the Arts Council Executive Director Kathy Mazzaferro, “bluegrass was one of the top genres requested. It’s what our audience wanted.”
 
Choosing Laurie Lewis to scratch that itch was a no-brainer. “She’s one of the top bluegrass artists,” Mazzaferro said. “By all accounts, she’s amazing. We’re very grateful she was available.”
 
Fiddler, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and Grammy-winner Laurie Lewis has long been a staple of the Northern California (and beyond) bluegrass scene. “When I was in my early 20s I discovered the vibrant bluegrass community in the Bay Area and I just stayed,” she said. She’s built a career performing this traditional art form, helping found two West Coast legends, the Good Ol’ Persons Band and the Grant Street String Band, has twice been voted female vocalist of the year by the International Bluegrass Association. Her classic rendition of Kate Long’s song, "Who Will Watch the Home Place?" won International Bluegrass Song of the Year, and her latest album with her band the Right Hands, The Hazel and Alice Sessions, was nominated for the Best Bluegrass Recording Grammy in 2017. Lewis was an influencer in the bluegrass world before “influencer” was an Instagram path to fame.
 
Bluegrass is the quintessential melting-pot American music, hailing from Appalachia and built on a framework of influences from Africa, the British Isles and mainland Europe. Old time string music, blues, sacred music, gospel, and jazz intertwined to create the high lonesome sound and rollicking stringed instrumentals that burst into life the early 20th century with performers like Bill Monroe, the Carter Family, and Ralph Stanley.
 
“It is a very communal sort of music,” Lewis said. “You want to be in a band to play it. It’s so much about communication with the other band members.” With her silvery voice, Lewis weaves intricate and skin-tingling harmonies with members of The Rights Hands: Singer and mandolin player Tom Rozum, Banjo player Patrick Sauber, fiddle player Brandon Godman, and stand-up bass player Andrew Conklin.
 
Lewis says she and the band gravitate towards the older traditional style, as opposed to the modern smoother style of bluegrass. Although she admits that “I also write a lot of songs, and I’m not necessarily bound to the tradition when I write. It’s impossible to be true to yourself and be a complete dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist.”
 
Traditional doesn’t equal stuffiness. “I would argue that blue grass started out as a pretty cutting edge music,” Lewis said. “It was music that combined the interest of Bill Monroe. He loved the church singing and old time fiddle tunes, and he was a singer songwriter. You could sort of define it as a singer song writer with a string band. If you look at it that way, we are perfectly in the tradition.”
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The Calaveras County Arts Council is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation.  Founded in 1981, our purpose is to coordinate excellence in the presenting and promotion of the visual and performing arts of all cultures for artists, residents and visitors.  Our staff is comprised of an executive director, a consultant grant writer, and a part-time assistant under the direction of an 11-member volunteer Board of Directors.  FIN 94-2779793
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